Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lend-Lease Best Possible...
...reply to a question on Lend-Lease supplies sent to China, Dr. Hu replied that he had no doubt that both the British and the Americans had done their best under the severe limitations existing. "It is difficult for the layman to judge the problem," he said. "The situation cannot be radically altered without a large scale land, air and naval campaign against the Japanese in Burma...
...Marshal Sir John G. Dill, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, Lieut. General Dwight Eisenhower, General Sir Harold Alexander, Admiral Sir Andrew B. Cunningham, Lieut. Generals Henry H. Arnold and Brehon B. Somervell, Vice Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Lieut. General Sir Hastings Ismay, Air Vice Marshal Inglis and Lend-Lease Administrator W. Averell Harriman...
...Shipments of Lend-Lease goods by air transport are only a tiny part of the supplies (of which Lend-Lease was only a fraction) which came over the Burma Road. Far greater supplies were smuggled in from the coast...
India has also exported food and rolling stock to the Middle East to aid Allied forces and to help transport Lend-Lease shipments to Russia. As a result the Indian railroads are underequipped for food distribution and further handicapped by the conversion of many railroad shops to war production. War has caused a shortage of bottoms for coastwise food shipment...